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Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
British physicist and chemist, best known for his work in electromagnetism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Mississippi novelist, author of The Sound and the Fury and other works, creator of his own fictional universe--Yoknawpatapha County, and  winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

 

 

 

 

 



Guy Fawkes (1570-1606)

British conspirator (against British anti-Catholics), who was hanged for his attempt to burn down Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated on November 5th.

 

 

 

 

 

Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908)
American scholar of Asian cultures whose writings, especially on the the Chinese ideogram, were influential on such American poets as Ezra Pound.

 

 

 

 

 

Johann Fichte (1764-1816)
German idealist philosopher.

 

 

 

 

 

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Marsilio Ficino (1433-99)
Italian philosopher, who made major contributions to the Platonic Revival in the Renaissance.

 

 

 

 

 

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Robert Fludd (1574-1637)
British Renaissance physician and mystic.

 

 

 

 

 

Michel Foucault (1926-88)
French philosopher and professor of the "history of systems of thought" at the College dé France. His many books included Madness and Civilization (1961), The Order of Things (1970), The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972), and The Birth of the Clinic (1973).

 

 

 

 

 

Anatole France (1844-1924)
Pseudonym of JACQUES ANATOLE FRANÇOIS THIBAULT. French novelist and Nobel laureate.

 

 

 

 

 

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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1783).
American diplomat, scientist, and writer, one of the founding fathers of the United States.

 

 

 

 

 

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J. G. Frazer (1854-1941)
Scottish-born British anthropologist, author of The Golden Bough (1890), a cross-cultural study that played a pivotal role in early 20th Century understanding of "privimitive" myth and religion.

 

 

 

 

 

Sigmund Freud (1956-1939)
The founder of psychoanalysis, author of such books as The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1922), The Future of an Illusion (1928), and Civilization and Its Discontents (1928). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Frost (1874-1963)
New England poet, one of the great American writers of the 20th Century.

 

 

 

 

 

Norman Fruman (1923- ).
American literary scholar, author of the controversial Coleridge: The Damaged Archangel (1971).

 

 

 

 

 

Robert W. Funk (1926- )
American professor of religion, author of Language, Hermeneutic, and Word of God: The Problem of Language in the New Testament and in Contemporary Theology (1966) and other books.